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Project Website: http://slought.org/content/11166/
Slought Foundation, a non-profit organization rethinking contemporary art, presents a two-month exhibition and live concert series engaging the work of John Coltrane, one of the most important musicians in modern Jazz. Philadelphia’s rich jazz heritage provides an ideal backdrop for this tribute juxtaposing archival material (including August Blume's previously unreleased 1958 audio interview and listening stations featuring the live recordings, courtesy of Impulse Records) with work by contemporary visual artists that, since the 1970s, have executed homages to Coltrane’s oeuvre.
Contemporary Artists: Osvaldo Romberg, Quentin Morris, Barry Goldberg, Michael Gitlin, Uri Dotan, Doug Benson, Michael Anderson, and Stephen Pusey. Organized by Mark Christman, Aaron Levy, and Osvaldo Romberg.
In conjunction with the exhibition, the 2003-2004 Jazz series commenced on Wednesday October 15, 2003 at 8pm with a live concert by Sunny Murray Factor (Sunny Murray in trio with Khan Jamal and Sabir Mateen), and a live concert on Saturday October 18, 2003 with Miroslav Vitous, sponsored by ECM Records. For information on upcoming concerts in the series, beginning December 6, 2003, view the Free Exchange series: http://slought.org/calendar/query1,exchange
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Arguably the most influential musician in modern jazz, spiritually and technically, Philadelphia's John Coltrane (1926-67) recorded for the first time under Dizzy Gillespie, before shifting from bebop towards a more open-ended experimentalism in Miles Davis's preeminent quintet which introduced modalism to his work. A brief period with Thelonius Monk in 1957 effectively signaled his career as a leader; over the next ten years his quartet - particularly with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones - evidenced Coltrane's ambitious vision. Espousing a personalized version of Judaeo-Chistianity with elements of African and Eastern animism, John Coltrane radically shifted jazz harmony. Seminal recordings on Impulse Records include "A Love Supreme" and "Ascension," Even today, a substantial critical divide exists between Coltrane's earlier conventional, albeit highly-inventive, work and his late free-explorations.
This program is made possible in part through the generous sponsorship or support of The African American Museum of Philadelphia, The John Cotton Dana Library / Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University, Impulse Records, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Paul Rodgers/9W, Universal Concepts Unlimited, ars nova workshop, Dave Burrell and Dan Morgenstern, and Philadelphia Weekly
 
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